Mallee Dam Winiam, Victoria, Australia
By Dik: on 24-May-08. Waypoint GC1CJHD

It is with heavy heart I am forced to archive this cache.
After 17 years of regularly driving the highway my job description has changed and I am no longer able to maintain this cache.
With no offers of maintenance or adoption and not wishing to leave "geo-litter" in the bush I have no other choice.

A quick and easy drive by as we cache our way from Melbourne to Moonta. We spotted a turtle on the track as we were driving in. Geoturtle37 was absolutely delighted, for obvious reasons. He looked to be doing it hard, so we gave him/her a lift to the dam. Thanks for bringing us here and thanks for the cache.

3rd find for the Had to walk a bit but a beautiful day for it and nice surroundings Track is washed away tftc tnln

Having driven over from SA with Anymules and then meeting up with mogni we had a great caching adventure over the past two days. Had solved many puzzles in the week prior to coming and had most of them before we attended a lunchtime event in St. Arnaud. Sadly this is were we had to part with mogni as she headed off to her home. Time for Anymules and me to start caching our way home as well. [^]
It was starting to get dark and we had planned on being almost home by now. Made this the last stop for me. A quick find in the failing light. thanks Dik: for placing the cache.

A nice little drive by find. TFTC. 21/08/2016, 6:09 PM Find #2714

Great little journey off the beaten track, however track not recommend when it is wet & u have a low profile car. Abandoned car part way down track !

TFTC

Found by me and my nephew on the way home from Adelaide! TFTC. My GPS took us on an a bit of a wild goose chase though

Found as part of a trip to tackle This is SA series with Gamma Sistema and Na'wal thanks for the cache

### Find **# 3555** Traditional **#2776** ###

GemmaSistema, wozzle68 and myself made plans for an adventure trip out west making our way to the this is SA series. We cached along the way and back having a blast while doing so. The weather was ordinary overnight but the morning was glorious, a great day to cache

Even with this one being off the highway, we wanted to come check it out. The road in was a bit rough and we were able to park about 50 meters before the cache. A quick look of this this dry area and the cache was found quickly. Signed and returned as found.

**Thanks for this Trad cache, Dik: ** [^]
**Log and container in good condition.**
**Took Nothing, Left Nothing.**

Caching in the far west with Na'wal and Wozzle68 we hit up a few caches before heading into the Little Desert. This was one of them. A nice quick find. It was actually good to come down this track as it was sandy and gave me a little practice before the real 4WDing took place! LOL. Thanks for the cache and the detour

Very cold day, but we were on a mission to drop a traveller closer to the West, and decided to stop here on the way.

Road in was dodgy as...

TFTC.

An easy find with CPwanderer.

A lovely location and nice spot to stop on our fun roadtrip from Adelaide to St Arnaud. The main aim of our trip was to complete the BM series, attend the CITO event and obtain the the special souvenir (as amazingly not 1 CITO had been arranged in SA). Locus Cache and I collected CPwanderer, then spontaneously en route Muff1 asked to join in on our trip from Kaniva...lol...and of course the answer was yes! We loved all of the caching we did and had such a fun time filled with crazy happenings and lots of laughter. Woo Hoo...bring on the next roadtrip

Thanks for the cache Dik!

Easy find with GoodLook! Thanks for the hide .... nice spot!

A quick find as we make our way to Victoria for a caching holiday, we took it nice and easy going down the road in the Commodore, once we arrived near GZ the dam was dry and it was very quiet here, it was a nice deviation away from the roadside stop and grabs. TFTC

This cache was found during a weekend adventure of caching, exploring and 4WD'ving with my two boys. We spent much of the weekend in and around the Little Desert National Park where we had an absolute ball. Today we teamed up with Jacko83 and Timmo98, meeting them just out of Dimboola before heading into the desert where our main goal for the day was to do the 'This is SA' series of puzzle caches. The weather was perfect and was nice and warm all day, with hardly a cloud in the sky. By late afternoon we had visited Broughton's Waterhole and from there Jacko83 and Timmo98 headed back east while my boys and I made our way to Kiata Campground where we were to spend the night.

I love these 'off the main road' caches as they can be quite interesting. This was an interesting site and I enjoyed reading the information about the location and the dam here. Thanks Dik:

We have returned from Canada to discover a few more Australian caches! What a great way to explore the Land Down Under" ...
Big ruts in the road but we were still able to navigate with our trusty Toyota Hiace.
Great spot... Thanks for the fun Dik:!

Thanks Dik for showing us this great area , we enjoyed the drive in but we were glad of the 4wd as the ruts would be a bit tricky to navigate in a normal sedan .

All good and ready for spring caching.
New "super swap" added for those who have a use.

17:36
Ballarat to Kaniva, a distance of some 300 kms. Regular drivers would expect the trip to take around 3 ½ hours. As we all know geocachers can make that time stretch out to 9 hours! This was our final stop for the day. It is hard to realise the dam was built out here 145 years back.

Our thanks to Dik: for bringing us here.
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Suscoe's 6th find of the day.
We were not sure what to expect with the access road and so the bike got unpacked and off Mr. S headed down the dirt road.
Just as well as there are a few deep ruts and very sticky sandy clay.
Finally arrived at GZ, signed the log and back to the trip to the car.
The track going back up got a bit too soft for the bike and so a walk in the afternoon sun was made.
Thanks to Dik: for placing this cache out here, a nice 20 minutes.

Found on a kid free adventure with Mrs Fergzter on a geo tour around western Victoria. When we pulled up near the GZ I found myself chuckling a bit as I dont know what I was expecting about the Mallee Dam but this wasnt it. A very cute and petite waterhole and a pretty nice bird hide. We did marvel at the erosion and sand flows in the area which indicated that when the rain falls, it falls good. We did find a cache extraction tool that looked to have been dropped near the GZ so we bundled that in the cache. Many thanks for the hide Dik. Cache and log in Very Good condition.

Travelling around Australia in our Caravan with our cat.

After leaving Mundulla we stopped in Kaniva for a quick break then moved on to NHill.

Thanks for your cache to feed our GeoAddiction.

TFTC Dik:

At the last moment, I received time off of work in order to head over to do the High Voltage 101 power trail and spend time 4WDing in the amazing and wonderful Victorian high country
GPS, thewhitedoggang and Princess Consuela were my travelling companions and great company they were, too [^]
All up, over 6 days, 161 caches were found with only 2 DNFs (one of which we later realised was already disabled )
Also, during our High Voltage experience, I hit my 8,000th cache find

Loved this pretty spot and appreciated being brought here to see this! [^]
Considering I only found 1 ccahe today, I am glad that it was this one!
We were only sad that we were unable to stay here for the night, as we still had many miles to travel prior to meeting friends at a prearranged meeting point.

TNLN. SL. TFTC Dik:

What a beautiful spot. Well worth the diversion off the main road. Great spot for an overnight camp, but alas not for us today. The cache was in good condition.

Travelled from SA to do some caches with Locus Cache. Poor Locus got slowed down by the constraints of time and travelling.

Thanks Dik: for the cache, the laughs and the adventure.

TFTC

Found during a country Victoria trip
Cool spot, great cache, I really enjoyed the experience.
TFTC Dik:

I thought I'd check this as I was going along the Highway, and was surprised I was able to make it a drive by. Had expected a walk from the track and still had many hours to drive, so a quick pick up was a pleasant surprise. I think I was expecting to see a much bigger Dam, but nevertheless I was happy with the drive in and the cache. My thanks to Dik for the cache, and the break in my trip this morning.

[green]Find #4230[/green]...

Dropped in & found this enroute to Murray Bridge... A pleasant day to be out & about... Thanks for a chance to stretch the legs...

A bit of a stroll, a bit of a search, made the grab, signed log & replaced...
Thanks for placing and maintaining this cache for our enjoyment Dik...
- P

Took: Nothing
Left: Nothing
Stamped Log...

[green]Cache Condition - All Good[/green]...

A rough rutted road into the dam but passable, found & logged. TFTC

Fgugfefg

Found at 16:33 by Olga.
Unfortunately I put my thumb through the brittle container, so replaced with a regular sized Sistema, painted black

Such a great little spot I would have never been to if I was not caching. The cache was out on the ground so we put were we thought it should be. TFTC

What a lovely spot. This cache epitomises everything we enjoy about caching. Quick find on our road trip home to Katherine with LionJRB. TFTC

Dropped in for a maintenance visit and after 8 1/2 years in the wild still in perfect condition. Noted that 2 of the last 3 logbook entries were muggles, and there are many more muggle entries throughout. Clearly the visitors here have a different state of mind to those who trash urban caches. Must be all that serenity

What a great walk, I enjoyed this one.

3658. found by baby&Mrs gopher at 1555 on our trip to the BigLittleEvent2 in SA.We made the drive to the intersection then parked and went for our afternoon stroll. This would make a great overnight camp. SL Tnx Dik

Found with Geogran1937. TFTC.

Found with dgfb33.

TFTC

An easy drive into this one in the 4WD and then a walk to the cache checking out the location. When we arrived at GZ we found that we could have made this one a DIDO but then we would have missed out of the scenery. TNLN TFTC

Found this one at 1040hrs this morning while waiting tor the relations to wake up.
Third find while in nhill for easter break!
Thanks for the hide here, this is a spot most people would just drive straight past!

Found on the way to the OZ MEGA in Murray Bridge .
Thanks For The Cache .

A final trip to Melbourne on mother business and made sure there was some time for caching on the drive over and back.
Took the short drive off the highway and managed to park only meters away from the cache, nice spot.
Thanks for the cache Dik:

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

That’s one more find for me! Thanks so much for hiding this geocache.

With the ute loaded, tent in the back, clothes in the front and sleeping gear somewhere (I hope), there was only ones other thing to pack for my South Australia trip, my GPS!

I decided to grab a few of these little beauties upon the way.

A nice little quiet place off the highway here. It would be a great little camp spot. Water is a fair bit down, but that's evaporation for you.

TFTC

What a fabulous location, and but for caching and the local birdos must be a well kept secret. I had the place to myself and it was so peaceful with only the sounds of birds. Giving a favourite for the location as it was a very easy find. Thanks for diverting me here Dik

Nice easy find and a nice little dam on the way!Found on our caching road trip!TFTC

Another tremendous outback spot. We loved this spot. Thanks for bringing us here.

Tftc found with polkys quest

Found as part of auzzie convicts and myself's trip to Melbourne tftc

A great place we would ever have visited except for the cache. Spider orchids, great bush, excellent camping area and quiet. Spent a great night in this free camp on our way to Cape Otway.
TFTC
Lead 'n Lace.

Found on a huge caching run with Dunko over to the SA power runs, as always we enjoyed where the caching took us along with the hunt. Our tanks to Dik: for the effort and placement TNLN SL

Found while out and about at large with my caching mate Slink1 on a huge caching run. We had a crack at the new SA power runs and as always we enjoyed where the caching took us. Our thanks to Dik: for the effort and placement TNLN SL

Yay

Found this one the other day while going for a drive

(12:07:28 PM/fwgb) TFTC! Easy find. Not much water in the dam. Nice spot for a highway camp.

Not Found on the last day of our family reunion trip to Ararat.

We had left this one on the way to Ararat as it looked like it might be a bit hairy, but as we didn't have many to do on the way home we thought we would give it a go. It ended up being really quite easy to get to. 2WD would have no trouble today. TFTC Dik:

28.04.2013 6pm Lovely walk on disk in beautiful Mallee scenery. TFTC. Jabby

That was a quite nice walk to GZ. We enjoyed the scenery and birdlife over here. And of course we searched for the cache. It was an easy find. Thanks!

NoWorryMan

Approached the location from Nossacks Rd.
Took the Gear TB

Droped TB rk9yka

Found on second look. Our follow campers had it doing some maintenence

This entry was edited by sedane on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 03:21:21 UTC.

Having the day off from my usual day to day grind I was able to get out and pick up a few caches close to home. Thanks for this cache.

Find No. 228. Found with FUF009 at 9.15am
On our holidays to follow the Tour Down Under in South Australia, we decided to hit a few caches along the way.

FUF009 and myself took off on foot through the scrub to find this one as the GPS didn't show a road. Got to the spot and discovered there was a road that we could have taken right to the spot. Oh well just think of all the extra exercise we got, and the nice walk we had through the bush.
A quick easy find once we got there.
Took Hand Clapper. Left Puffer fish.
TFTC

Find #443 @ 0915h

Found with Tyred n Cranky

Off on our annual Holiday to follow the Tour Down Under in South Aus. We decided to hit a few caches.

Well Mrs Tyred n Cranky and myself took off for this one on foot, going what we thought was the best way only to find that there was a road that lead up here oh well we all have them moments
It was a nice walk through the bush anyway.

Took kinder suprise
Left Shark

TFTC

Had an overnight stop here on our way to the high country. Great spot for a cache. TNLNSL

On a 4WD trip to the High Country from South Australia and decided to doing some caching along the way.
We took our camper in here easily. a beautiful spot. Next time we might take longer and try some bird watching! Thanks for bring us off the main road for a bit! T a pirate whistle Left an angel! TFTC Dik

morning break easy find. tftc.

A nice little spot, which seems to have been neglected. TFTC.

Nice secluded spot, easy find
T: Bells
L: Whistle
TFTC

I was on my way back to Melbourne, returning from a week or so in South Australia. I had planned to do quite a few caches on the way, this one included, but the temperature went off the scale, and so I ended up only doing 6 before driving straight through to home. I liked the area, and was glad of a quick find in the heat. Thanks for showing me this area, and for the cache.

Nice spot, off the highway. Raining now, so didnt stay for lunch.
TNLNSL
Thanks

Nice place to visit.
Tftc

Found on my way to SA for a few days GeoCaching. Thanks Dik for the cache. TNLN

Found by the Kaniva ventures

5/9/2012

Nice area

it's amazing where i take my little car but i wouldn't take it here after rain, left GC, tftc

Great spot. Never knew this was here. Put this one in the freecamp memory bank. Tracks a bit damp but no problem. TFTC.

Nice hid! TFTC

2nd find for the day, a lovely spot for a cache. Left uncovered but covered it well when we replaced it. TNLN TFTC

Found with Nom234... along with some serious firewood! T4TC!

The Three of us were on our way home to Adelaide from the Oz Mega in Albury. We've been past this cache many times over the last couple of years and never had time to stop. Well, given we stayed overnight in Horsham we had plenty of time, and Toddler Tardis needed to stretch his legs.

A really lovely location which we all enjoyed. We had no problem driving in and we parked just off the dirt road. We walked the remainder to get the blood pumping.

SL. Thanks for placing a cache here Dik:

Found in the company of the Chief (Dad) and the Walenators at the very beginning of our SA adventure. A good way to get my driving hours up! TFTC

I love these caches that are out of the way, and this open did not disappoint. The Land Rover and Trailer had no problems at all. THanks for the Hide Dik; ....SL...TNLN

Quick find on way to Melbourne. TFTC.

The learner driver did the 4x4 driving into here with a big grin on his face. Baby fox ran across the track in front of us,
Woohoo.
Parked next to cache and did the formalities.
Thanks Dik: for the caching and driving fun

ADE11-12. This one was a bit more dirt than the small car likes, but taking it quietly meant getting in and out ok. The cache it self was in a nice location. Not much water around. Thanks.

6201.243 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Monopoly A#51

Albida

Coming off the highway onto this rougher track, we felt more at home! (It reminds us of our 8km driveway to our homestead) The eldest geoteen was fast asleep throughout the whole trek along the track, and only woke up when the car was stationary! Oh well, within a few minutes we had the cache and were on our way. TFTC Dik:

This entry was edited by farmer--brown on Monday, 02 January 2012 at 22:08:52 UTC.

Found and signed on our way to Melbourne.
Another unknown place found because of this crazy game.
Access easy in the Prado.

Easy to access in any car during the dry

Pleasant detour heading east for a bit of R&R. SL

Pleasant detour heading east for a bit of R&R. SL

Found during a trip to Melbourne. Enjoyed the short detour to a very nice locality. Thanks for the cache Dik.

This proved a nice little challenge to get to, just didn't trust the GPS enough.
Thanks Dik for showing me this 'out of the ordinary' place, a nice piece of history

Great little spot TFTC

Drove to and from GZ slowly as advised. Nice spot here, could be hard in wet season. Alan checked out the bird hide and I searched. TFTC Dik:

A short detour soon had us in this liitle remote pocket. Lots of birds and wildflowers about. TFTC

This entry was edited by vp4 on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 at 10:00:30 UTC.

Various logs had made us doubt the wisdom of taking our 2WD car into the location. Today we had extra time and so we explored the access. We found that we could safely drive our car to within about 400m of GZ. It was a pleasant and easy walk into GZ where a quick find was made. TFTC Dik: